GENEROSITY
Quote: The more he cast away the more he had. Author: John Bunyan 1628-1688, British Author
Quote: I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity... in important things, diversity... in all things, generosity. Author: George Bush 1924-, Forty-first President of the USA
Quote: Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them. Author: Barry Duncan
Quote: It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: To generous souls every task is noble. Author: Euripides BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet
Quote: Lavishness is not generosity. Author: Thomas Fuller 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author
Quote: Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. Author: Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist
Quote: Giving is the business of the rich. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart. Author: Lord Greville 1554-1628, British Poet
Quote: People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault. Author: Sidney J. Harris 1917-, American Journalist
Quote: Generosity is the flower of justice. Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer
Quote: There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his. Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher
Quote: All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side. Author: Anna Jameson 1794-1860, British Essayist
Quote: Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: How much easier is it to be generous than just. Author: Junius 1769-1771, Anonymous British Letter Writer
Quote: Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed. Author: Jean De La Bruyere 1645-1696, French Writer
Quote: What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. Author: Horace Mann 1796-1859, American Educator
Quote: Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. Author: Alexander Pope 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator
Quote: What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost. Author: Robert of Doncaste
Quote: Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives. Author: Jean-Paul Sartre 1905-1980, French Writer, Philosopher
Quote: The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. Author: Jean-Paul Sartre 1905-1980, French Writer, Philosopher
Quote: Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker. Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822, British Poet
Quote: He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice. Author: Sir Henry Taylor 1800-1886, British Author
Quote: If you're a generous person you'll have no trouble admitting that somebody else is good. If you're a better person you'll find it's total impossibility. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more. Author: William Wordsworth 1770-1850, British Poet
Quote: Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe. Author: Jon Kabat Zinn